Being Useless

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:5-8 (HCSB)

I don't know about you but the desire of my heart is to be useful and fruitful for my King and Master.  Peter has a good word for us here.  He challenges us to grow in these character traits and then promises if we do they will keep us from being useless and unfruitful. 
We often forget that character does count and it makes all the difference in our spiritual lives.  If we want to be faithful Christ followers we need to be useful.  Faithfulness is always demonstrated by fruitfulness.  Grow to be useful to the Master!